Mumsnet user upset after partner refuses to pay for her to go on group holiday with friends

A distraught woman has taken to Mumsnet to vent after her 'high earning' partner of nearly six years refused to pay for her to go on a couple's holiday.

But went ahead and booked to go away with their friends without her...

The anonymous woman, who has lived with her other half for three and a half years, took to the parenting forum to ask whether she was being 'unreasonable' for feeling 'hurt' by her partner's decision, The Sun reports.

'DP [darling partner] is a high earner, takes home a v good wage, earns 3 x my salary and (for some reason) has disclosed to me that he has £80,000 in savings sitting in the bank.

'Anyway, each year our group of 4 couples tend to holiday together. (They are all high earners really) I've never not been able to afford it before and so we have always gone.

'There was a message from the "organiser'" of our group on the group Whatsapp chat a few weeks ago, wanting to book a pretty expensive holiday together in February.

'I hadn't had a chance to speak to DP properly about it but did say, out loud when the text came through that I wouldn't be able to afford to go. He didn't say anything.

'He's just informed me that they're "booking the holiday next week" and he'll be going without me seeing as I can't afford it.'

She then asked for advice about whether it was OK to feel upset by her partner's reaction.

'AIBU [am I being unreasonable] to feel hurt?' she wrote. 'I feel like after 5.5 years we should be a partnership and I know 100% that if I had £80,000 in the bank in savings, I would pay for my partner to go on a £1,200 holiday, even if they paid me back in instalments (which I wouldn't want).'

The woman then added that feels 'embarrassed' by the situation, adding that she would choose 'to sit this one out' if the situation were reversed or 'pay for him to go if I could afford it, rather than spend a week away with 3 other loved up couples on my own'.

Adding that she didn't want to appear 'grabby', the woman said that the whole issue was about 'kindness' in her eyes.

Her post was soon inundated with responses – and almost everyone seemed to side with the woman...

One said: 'I'm all for paying your own way but this is ridiculous. He's so well off and you've been together for 5 years.'

Another added: 'I really hope you're not planning to have children with him.'

What do you think? Does the woman have a right to be upset? Or do you think her partner's decision was justified?